November 6
November 6
Events
- 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.[1]
Births
- 1950 – Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad, Pakistani politician[55]
Deaths
Holidays and Observances
Inayat Khan
***** Inayat Khan, the founder of the Sufi Order in the West and a teacher of Universal Sufism, died on this day in 1927. ***** Inayat Rehmat Khan Pathan (Urdu: حضرت عنایت رحمت خان پٹھان ) (b. July 5, 1882, Baroda, Bombay Presidency, British India – d. February 5, 1927, New Delhi, British India) was the founder of the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 (London) and teacher of Universal Sufism. Khan initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific "Tansen" from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization, formed under Swiss law, called the "International Sufi Movement". Inayat Khan's message of divine unity (tawhid) focused on the themes of love, harmony, and beauty. He taught that blind adherence to any boo...
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